Li Boyuan is like a vanguard general, he just came over, Duan Qirui, Gu Hongming, and they also came over.

Ma Yinchu and they were all dumbfounded, this is really not true, they haven't gone to toast yet, how can there be any reason for their seniors to take the initiative to come.

Fortunately, they reacted quite quickly, Duan Qirui and their butts had just left the chair, and Ma Yinchu greeted them with a wine glass.

"Elder Duan, Elder Gu, we are just thinking about going over to toast. ”

Wang Lijian and the others saw Ma Yinchu catching up, and they also followed behind.

It's like two armies meeting together, and the people at the two tables meet in the middle.

The reason why Gu Hongming and the others want to run this way from that table is also because there are too many people around their table, which makes them a little irritable.

However, this group of people represented by Tie Yan doesn't seem to have any eyesight, no matter whether Gu Hongming is explicitly hinting at them, it doesn't work, they just don't leave.

In fact, according to the temper of Gu Hongming and Duan Qirui, they had already scolded, the key is that Zhuang Yan is the master today, and it is not good that the words are too intense, so when there is no way, they can only move the place.

It was Duan Qirui who proposed it, no matter whether he could get rid of these people or not, he couldn't let these old men deal with it, so naturally he had to drag Ma Yinchu and them into the water.

Duan Qirui had already observed the situation at Zhuang Yan's table, and seeing that they were drinking lively, he already had an opinion in his heart.

Okay!

We old bones are struggling in this quagmire, but you juniors are happy and happy, how can there be such a reason.

So, there is the current scene.

"Ziyan, all the gentlemen are here today to accept students, you are good, why don't you come to toast. Liu Yi touched his beard and reproached Zhuang Yan, although it was a blame, in fact, he still played a round for him.

Gu Hongming said with a smile: "It's okay, it's okay to be a little earlier or later, since that's the case, everyone doesn't have to go around the table, one person carries a chair and sits together." ”

Zhuang Yan took Yu Hai to move the table a little away and make an open space to come out, and then everyone sat around very casually.

Then Zhuang Yan called Yao Qian and Liang Sicheng over and asked them to serve tea and pour water next to them.

Everyone sat down, Gu Hongming, Liu He, and the bigwigs sat in a row, in an arc, Liu He, Gu Hongming, Kang Youwei were in the center, and Duan Qirui and Lian Liwen were listed second.

Zhuang Yan and their juniors sat directly opposite.

There is a stove or melon and fruit on the plate in the middle of the two sides, and this noodle is a typical scene of the old and young masters sitting together in the countryside to play homely meals.

The rest of the people, some of them sat in a gap next to them, some of them sat in ài éi, and some of them stood directly in the back.

Cai Yuanpei looked around, and couldn't help but feel a little emotional, earlier in his office, when Kang Youwei and Gu Hongming were discussing Zhuang Yan's book, he also said in his heart that half of the Chinese literary world is here.

Now looking at these people in front of me, most of the power of the Chinese literary world is here.

Regardless of these literary giants, just a Zhuang Yan, the influence in the literary world today is unmatched.

"It's rare to get together so many people today, and it happens to be the sixth day of the first month, so it's like a visit to relatives, and everyone doesn't need to be restrained, just chat and pull as usual. Cai Yuanpei said with a smile.

Zhuang Yan looked at him and thought to himself that he was speaking easily, with these extremely heavy people in front of him, who could be unrestrained. He wanted to talk about the things he wanted to run a school, but he Cai Yuanpei was the president of Yenching University, although the competition between schools was a little too explicit, but he would definitely have to dig up the wall from Yenching University when he ran a school in the future, so Cai Yuanpei couldn't say anything about it.

But as the master, he naturally wanted to say something, he glanced at Gu Hongming and said, "Thank you Tang Shenggong for translating my book before." ”

He didn't have anything to say, Gu Hongming naturally knew it, so he waved his hand, "I've already thanked you before, so there's no need to be polite, I'm a little curious about the new book you just said on the stage, if I heard it right, the title of the book is "Sophie's World", but what is the allusion?"

Zhuang Yan didn't expect Gu Hongming to pull the topic to his new book with one sentence, so he didn't know how to answer.

The other people present were also curious about Zhuang Yan's new book, and at this time Gu Hongming asked, and they all waited for Zhuang Yan's next words with their ears sideways.

"There are no allusions. Zhuang Yan organized the language and said, "The title of this book can also be changed, it can be called Zhang San's world, or Li Si's world." ”

"Can that be called Kang Tongfu's world?"

Zhuang Yan turned his head to look, and it turned out that Kang Youwei's little girl was standing behind, and it was she who spoke just now.

"Ahem, Ziyan, you don't care about him. Kang Youwei's old face turned red, and he reprimanded Kang Tongfu again, "Don't talk nonsense." ”

Kang Tongfu stuck out his tongue and didn't speak again.

Zhuang Yan didn't feel strange that she would say such things, the last time she visited Kang Youwei's house, she was so open-mouthed.

So I didn't care, and continued, "The name is just a code name, and this book is a little different from my previous book. ”

"Oh, what's the difference?" asked Lian Liwen.

"It's different everywhere. Zhuang Yan smiled, "First of all, in terms of narrative means, this book is different from my usual ones, this book does not focus on the characters and events themselves, but often tells readers what method I am using to fictional works, and explains to them the relevant process of my creation." ”

As soon as he said this, many people were a little puzzled. Traditionally, writing is to make people think that the story told by the author is true, but exposing the fictional technique in this way will make the reader feel that the thing is fake.

Like some later networks, the protagonist in the book often talks to the author. There is also a more famous one, just like Deadpool in Marvel, who often communicates with off-screen.

Gu Hongming and Liu He were thoughtful, and seemed to be seriously thinking about the truth in the middle.

Duan Qirui first asked: "Tell the reader what method you are using to make up a work? In this case, what is the difference between it and a book report?"

Zhuang Yan shook his head, "No, this kind of exposure and fiction is not my original creation, there is such a narrative in "Don Quixote" and "The Biography of Xiang Di". ”

The reason why I mention Don Quixote is entirely because the influence of this film on the modern era is too great, for example, he changes the traditional single narrative theme mode to adopt multiple narrative perspectives, and the techniques he uses such as uncertainty and distance narrative even have the characteristics of postmodernism.

The literary and artistic circles have never stopped studying "Don Quixote", and the point that Zhuang Yan wants to mention today is a place that has not yet been studied in this era.

In the second part of Don Quixote, there is a deliberate exposure of fiction, when the author, Cervantes, arranges for Don Quixote to visit the printing house, discovers the forgery, and denounces it as "ridiculous".

And the forgery that Don Quixote discovered was the second pirated version of Don Quixote that was published by others on the market when Cervantes was creating the second part.